welcome back. as i said we have a lot more to unpack on add to today s abortion case and how the supreme court justices may have tipped their hands on how they could rule. joining me is a former clerk to sandra day o connor on the supreme court. former new york federal and state prosecutor, talia weinstein. i want to play two quotes. one is from justice kavanaugh, one is from chief justice roberts. it s taken the quotes together, i think it reinforces why pete williams was insistent that what we know this law s going to get upheld. take a listen. the court overruled precedent. and it turns out if the court in those cases had listened and they were presented with arguments in those cases, adhere to precedent, in brown v. board, adhere to plessy on west coast
0 standard of self-has proved difficult to administer and that is relevant to the analysis. and i want to give you an opportunity to respond. yes, your honor. the first point i d like to make is the undue burden test is not at issue in this case. that is the test that applies to regulations, not prohibitions. and the state has conceded that this is a prohibition. that s the title of this law. an act to prohibit abortion after 15 weeks. the only thing at issue in this case is the viability line, and the viability line has been enduringly workable. the lower federal courts have applied it consistently and uniformly for 50 years, and the fifth circuit here below had no difficulty striking down this law unanimously, 3 -0. it s been an exceedingly workable standard. if i may return to your question, sir chief justice, a reasonable possibility standard would not be workable. it would ultimately boil down to an argument that states can prohibit a category of women from exercising the consti
When Abner Linwood Holton Jr. was elected governor of Virginia in 1969, it was a big deal. He was the first Republican governor of the commonwealth elected since Reconstruction. Richard Nixon had won the presidency 12 months before and, in the following year, the victories of Holton and another GOP governor, William Cahill of New Jersey, not only defied the customary pattern for off-year elections but seemed to herald a Republican resurgence after the New Deal and Great Society eras.
things. black history is american history and so a refusal to sort of accept what has happened and accept the fact that we are still living within a racist construction, that we are still dealing with problematic laws and things that harm people, that we are still living with how racism harms black children. i think about kenneth park and their doll test which was instrumental of brown v. board and how they proved psychologically that racism was harming black children. how black people have been harmed by the institution of slavery, by structural racism. there s a real denial and dismissal to do anything about it. when you consider that some of this rhetoric is coming from educators. for me, i had to get two educations. there was one i was taught in school, one at home. i was blessed with a lot of diverse teachers, but not everybody is. like this teacher. this is a tennessee high school teacher who wants more empathy